Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-08-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

JUDGE HUMPHREY, who recently made Q
trip over the State on an inspection tour as
member of the Board Of Railroad Com
mfssioners, said that notwiths g nding the
dry weather Kansas would have an album
dant corn crop. While the expectations Of
several weeks ago would not be reached,
there would be millions of bushels to spare
in the State.
SOME time since Harvey Cunningham
Ggrote from Elk Falls TO Commissioner OF
Pensions Black as follows: Drop me from
the pension list, for am cured by faith in
The Lord. Blessed be the name OF the
Lord. There never was much the mat
ter with me, so the Lord hadn't much
TO do. Blessed be his holy name" Gun
bingham has been drawing pension for O
long time. and the pension will not be
stopped until the matter is investigated and
all the facts known, the probabilities being
that his mind is in that condition requiring
greater need than ever of the Governments
bounty.
UNITED STATES PENSION AGENT CLICK
has secured from the Pension Bureau the
establishment OF seven additional pension
medical examining boards for Kansas,
which will greatly facilitate the prepare
ton of pension papers and save a large
item of expense to the soldiers. The new
boards are located at the following places:
Leoti, Wichita County; Kingman, Kingman
County; Clay Center, Clay County; Bird
City, Cheyenne County; Winfield, CSwley
County; Dighton, Lane County; McPher-
son, Mcpherson County.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on
the eth: Eliza, mother OF William NJ.
Thompson, Holton; Sarah Walek, for
widow of James II. McMillen, Red Bud;
Sarah Bennett, for widow of Samuel F.
Rowe, Savonburgh; Nicholas Biancet, In
dependence; Daniel N. Benter, Parsons;
William Walker, Oswego: Samuel john
son, Ness City, William Richardson. juno
ton City; James B. Tremain, Elsinore;
Andrew w. Holston, Hale; James
Hendrick, Keelville; Anderson Underwood,
Linn; Frank J. Lambert, Fort Leaven-
worth; William z. Tatman, Harper; Ed
win c. Jaquith, Cedarville; Alvah Thayer,
Independence; Benjamin l. DUNCAN, Spring
Creek; Charles Carver. Olathe; Daniel
Waymire ,Miltonvale. Mexican War Vet
erans-lsaac Curry, Tribune; John L. Har-
ris, Lawrence; John NJ. Wood, WilmOt;
Joseph o. Mann, Solomon; Michael Fields,
Greeley; Alfred NJ. Jarboe, Burlingame;
Daniel Belleman, Weir City.
The colored men of the State recently held
a convention at Hutchinson. The report
of the Industrial Committee showed that
there are 167, 900 acres of land owned by
colored perso is in Southern Kansas, val
we'd, with the city property, at 81, $4,000.
recommended a thorough organization of
the colored people.
A RECENT dispatch from Leavenworth
stated that late the other night, after
Colonel Anthony and his family had been
entertaining some callers on the lawn in
front of his residence in that city, some
one under cover of the shade trees in front
of the premises fired two shots at dark
object in hammock on the veranda of the
he INF hot hac bCfc
were fired under the impression that
Colonel Anthony occupied the hammock
and the intention was to kill him.
In order to insure receiving a copy of the
journal of the session of the National Edu-
cational Association, recently held at Chi
cago, members should notify Prof. J. H.
Garfield, Lawrence, Kan, at once, by pos
al card, of their present addresses and of
4heir desire to secure the volume
A LATE late law passed by the Legisla-
ture provides that all persons owning. con-
trolling, operating or managing steam
traction engines of any kind, moving the
same along any public highway, are re-
quired on meeting any person or persons
in vehicles of any drawn by horses, ETC., to
turn to the right, giving as much of the
public highway as possible, and then shut
off the steam and come to halt at dis
lance of one hundred yards, and remain
such person or persons shall have passed a
distance of one hundred yards from the
place of hating on said highway. The pen
atty for violation of this act is a fine of
from five dollars to two hundred dollars.
JAMES GoRDEN, a colored private soldier,
was shot at Leavenwerth the other day by
Sam McElroy, his brother-ln-law. Both
men, after drinking for some time, got into
a quarrel, which resulted in the shooting.
Gorden's wound was considered fatal. Nc
Etfoy was imprisoned.
THE other evening an ice team at Wichita
ran away on Nam street and collided with
u street car at the crossing of Douglass ave-
nue.. The pole of the wagon ran through
the dashboard of the car, infiicting fatal in
ternal injuries upon the driver. Fred Hart
ley, and breaking the right leg and other
wise Injuring Mr.. Barsdell, On aged passen-
ger standing on The front platform.
ARTICLES OF incorporation of the Chicagc,
st. Paul & Kansas Railroad Company were
filed in the Office of the Secretary OF State
the other day. The term of existence of
the corporation is placed at ninety-nine
years and the capital stock at SIS. 600. 600.
The object of the corporation is to construct
a main line and branches as follows: TIE
main line from the north line of the State
in Washington or Republic Counties,
through Repu bile, Washington, Cloud,
Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa, Saline. Lincoln,
Mcpherson, Rice, Ellsworth, Barton, Reno,
Stafford, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa, Pratt,
Barber, Comanche, Clark and Meade Coun-
ties, to the south line of the State between
the east line of Barber County and the west
line of Meade County. The estimated
length of the main line is $50 miles. There
are three projected branches aggregating
$50 miles and traversing most of the west
ern counties of the State not touched by the
main line.
A MEETING of the Livestock Sanitary
Co nmission, called by special request OF
the Governor, was held at Topeka recently
for the purpose of considering what further
measures should be taken to protect the
cattle of the Stale against Texas fever. A